Shock-binder.



M. A. WILLIAMS.

SHOCK BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 14, 1911.

, 1,032,096, Patented July 9,1912.

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UN1TLEDTATE PATENT @Fl ffilfa MORGAN A. WILLIAMS, OF BRIDGEVILLE, DELAWARE.

SHOCK-BINDER.

Application filed September 14, 1911.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MORGAN A. VILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeville, in the county of Sussex and State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shock- Binders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shock binders, and has for its leading object the provision of simple and improved mechanism which may be easily operated and will serve to satisfactorily draw the bundles of stalks into a tight bunch and to hold the same in said bunch until they have been bound together.

The further object of my invention is an improved shock binder which may be engaged with equal facility on either large or small bundles and which will satisfactorily pull the same in a tight bunch until bound irrespective of the size of the bundle of stalks.

Other objects and advantages of my improved shock binder will be readily apparent by reference to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and it will be understood that I may make any modifications in the specific structure shown and described within the scope of my claim without departing from or exceeding the spirit of my invention.

Figure 1 represents a view of my device in use. Fig. 2 represents a top plan view thereof.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the vertical standard of my improved shock binder having secured thereto near its upper end the transversely disposed cross bar 2 forming the support for the guide arms or fingers 3 between which the stalks to be fastened in a shock by my binder are placed.

Rotatably journaled in the standard and cross piece at their intersection is the for wardly projecting arm. 4 having secured on its rear end the crank 5 for rotating the same. Said arm has secured thereto near its inner end one end of each of the ropes 6, one of said ropes bearing an eye 7 and the other bearing a hook 8 for engaging in the eye to detachably connect the free ends of the ropes 6.

In the use of my binder the stalks are placed on each side of the arm 1 and the arm 9 projecting from the standard near its base and are contained between the arms 3. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1912.

Serial No. 649,229.

then by means of the hook and eye connection fasten the ropes around the shock. Turning of the crank 5 then serves to wind the ends of the ropes on the arm 4- and consequently to tighten the ropes and force the stalks into close engagement with each other. To hold the ropes and thus the stalks in desired tightened position f secure on the rearwardly projecting end of the arm 4 the ratchet 1O engaged by the pawl 11 which is pivoted to the cross piece 2 and is pressed by the spring 12 into engagement with the ratchet to lock the ratchet and thus the arm 4 to prevent unwinding of the ropes from the arm.

In order that I may readily disengage the pawl when desired, 1 secure to the projecting end thereof the wire or connection 13 terminating in the finger loop 14. Said wire extends downward through the guides 15 on the standard 1 and terminates adjacent the handle portion 16 of the arm 9, whereby upon grasping of the handle 16 the loop 1 1 may be readily grasped and drawn toward the handle to shift and hold the pawl in disengaging position.

From the foregoing description the construction and operation of my improved binder will be readily understood and it will be seen that my device serves to satisfactorily engage and hold the stalks in a tight bunch or shock. readily fasten the stalks in said shock, I secure to the base of the standard 1, the twine holder 17 from which the twine eX- tends upward through the guide loops 18 carried by the standard and cross piece whereby the loose end of the twine 19 hangs at one end of the cross piece where it may be readily grasped and drawn and fastened around a shock. To enable me to readily cut the twine after the shock has been secured, 1 fast-en adjacent the twine bearing end of the cross piece the upstanding cutter finger 20 having sharp edges against which the twine may be drawn to sever the same.

From the preceding description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings the construction and use of my improved shock binder will be readily apparent, and it will be seen that I have provided an extremely simple and efficient device on which a shock may be readily engaged and which will serve to satisfactorily draw into tightened position shocks of different sizes To enable me to a and satisfactorily hold the same until the shock has been fastened and then disengaged from the shock and Which Will consequently prove extremely desirable and etlicient in every particular.

I claim:

A shock binder, comprising a standard, a cross piece carried thereby, arms projecting from the ends of the cross piece, an arm mounted in the standard and having a rearwardly extending handle portion, an arm rotatably mounted in the intersecting portions of the standard and cross piece, means for rotating said arm, shock engaging ropes each having one end detachably connected to the other rope and the other end secured to the rotating arm, means for locking said arm in adjusted position, and a fin er loop disposed adjacent the handle portion of the standard arm for releasing said locking means When the loop is drawn toward the handle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses.

MORGAN A. WILLIr'ililS. Witnesses R. H. HARRIS, J. F. WVILLIAMs.

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